(aka Bill Quinn) Friday morning Christmas Factoids are here, packed with a serious punch to help usher in your weekend. So lets get started! *Charles Dickens grew up during a ‘Little Ice Age’ and hence it snowed for each of his first 8 Christmases influencing his writing and hence today’s tradition of a ‘White Christmas’. *In 1918 and for the past 40 years, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has sent the city of Boston a giant Christmas tree as a thank you for their support after the 1917 Halifax explosion *Some zoos take donated Christmas trees and use them to feed their animals. Plenty of fiber to keep all the animals happy... *A village in Peru settles their grudges by fist fighting on the Christmas day, then go drinking and start the New Year off on a clean slate. * Engineers designing the Voyager Space mission planned it to avoid planetary encounters over Thanksgiving and Christmas. *Paul McCartney earns $400,000 a year off his Christmas song, which is widely regarded as the worst song he ever recorded. Im jus sayin... *All letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana. But, if thats true how does Santa get the letters we all send him. Im confused now... *Mistletoe at one time was thought to be an aphrodisiac. Everyone hopes theyll be able to steal a kiss from underneath this staple of holiday flora, but some hoped it would help them get a whole lot more. The poisonous fruit bearing plant has long been a symbol of virility and fertility, but the Druids actually believed it worked as a physical aphrodisiac. The spirited use of the plant gathered during the winter solstice eventually led to the kissing tradition that continues to make drunken office holiday parties extremely awkward the world over. With kissing in mind lets get it on, I mean lets, uh, find out why this one woman is kissing Santa with such gusto. Heres 60s teen idol Bobby Sherman... ow.ly/FZTJ7
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:01:02 +0000
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